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at her quarry. Should she be intended for rooks or herons, 

 two or three of these birds should be obtained. One should 

 be given her from the hand, then one released close to her, 

 and a third at a considerable distance. If she take these 

 keenly she may be flown at a wild bird. Care must be taken, 

 however, that she have every possible advantage in her first 

 flights, — wind, weather, and the position of the quarry with 

 regard to the surrounding co-untry must be considered. 



Young hawks, on being received by the falconer before 

 they can fly, must be put into a sheltered place, such as 

 an outhouse or shed. The basket or hamper should be filled 

 with straw, A hamper is best, with the lid so placed as to 

 form a platform for the young hawks to come out on and feed. 

 This should be fastened to a beam or prop a few feet from 

 the ground. The young hawks must be fed on the best fresh 

 food obtainable — good beefsteak and fresh-killed birds; the 

 falconer when feeding them should use his voice as in luring. 

 As they grow old enough they will come out and perch on the 

 roof of their shed, by degrees extending their flights to 

 neighboring buildings or trees, never failing to come at 

 feeding time to the place where they are fed. Soon they 

 will be continually on the wing, playing or fighting with 

 one another, and later the falconer will observe them chasing, 

 as pigeons and rooks, which may be passing by. As soon as 

 one fails to come in for a meal, it ihualT at once be caught 

 with a bow net or a snare the first time it comes back, or 

 it will be lost. It must be borne in mind that the longer 

 hawks can be left at hack the better they are likely to be 

 for use in the field, — those hawks always being best which 

 have preyed a few times for themselves before being caught. 

 Of course there is great risk of losing hawks when they begin 

 to prey for themselves. When a hawk is so caught she is 

 said to be "taken up" from hack. She will not require a 

 rufter hdod, but a good deal of the management described 

 for the passage falcon will be necessary. She must be care- 

 fully tamed and broken to the hood in the same manner, and 

 so taught to know the lure; but, as might be expected, very 

 much less difficulty will be experienced. As soon as the eyas 

 knows the liire sufficiently well to come sharp and straight 

 from a distance, she must be taught to "wait on". This is 

 effected by letting the hawk loose in an open space, such as 

 a down. It will be fotind that she will circle around the 

 falconer looklhg for the lure she has been accustomed to see,-- 

 perhaps moiint a little into the air, and advantage must be 

 taken of a favorable moment when the hawk is at a little 

 height, her head being turned towards the falconer],^ to let 

 go a pigeon which she can easily catch. When the hawk has 

 taken two or three pigeons this way and mounts iimnediately 

 in expectation, in short, begins to wait on, she should see 

 no more pigeons but be tried at game as soon as possible. 

 Young peregrines should be flown at grouse first in preference 

 to partridges, not only because the season commences earlier, 

 but because, grouse being livlier birds, they are not so 

 much tempted to "carry" as with partridges. 



